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    Reference 2374 (1473)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Kane, Elisha Kent
    Title ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, 1853, '54, '55. Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author. 2 Volumes
    Publishing Information Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856.
    Description 1st Edition: 2 Volumes, 464 and 467pages, illustrated with plates and engravings on steel and wood from sketches by the author. Frontispiece portraits, title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Original covers. Volume 1 loose pages and map, MISSING plate between pages 224 and 225, parts of pages ripped out mainly the introduction and preface, pages 224 to 231 ripped and sellotaped, loose map torn and repaired. Damp staining to loose frontispiece. Sold as reading copy only.Arctic Bibliography 8373: A good account of the voyage to Smith Sound, and of the winter on the north-west coast of Greenland, with extensive notes on the flora and fauna, the eskimoes and glaciers, the story of the final abandonment of the "Advance" and the party's return in small boats...No one had yet sailed beyond its northern portals.
    Price £30.00
    Keywords eskimo, arctic, polar S1-Arc
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